{"id":10195,"date":"2026-04-13T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/graduates-college-ai-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:07:11","slug":"graduates-college-ai-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/graduates-college-ai-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Grads Say AI Is Making It Impossible to Find a Job"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As debate rages over<\/a> whether AI\u2019s effects on the job market are real or illusory, one thing is clear: recent college grads are entering a labor force that has no room for them regardless.<\/p>\n

In a poll conducted by Gallup over the final three months of 2025, a whopping 72 percent<\/a> of respondents said it was a \u201cbad time\u201d to find a quality job. From December of last year to March, the labor force participation rate fell<\/a> from 62.4 percent to 61.9, a drop of 0.5 percent. For a stark sense of perspective, it took the decade between 2012 and 2022 for that figure to decline by 2.1 percent<\/a> \u2014 indicating that the situation today is highly volatile. <\/p>\n

The horrifying labor market is emerging at a time when tech companies and their investors are in a frenzy<\/a> over AI automation. Whether those things are directly correlated is one of the burning questions<\/a> of the AI boom, but recent college graduates say the timing is too good to be a coincidence.<\/p>\n

Take Gillian Frost, a quantitative econ major set to graduate from Smith College in Massachusetts in May. The 22-year-old senior told the Guardian<\/em><\/a> that she\u2019s been struggling to find a job since September, with little luck.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery weekend, I dedicate over two hours to job applications,\u201d Frost said. \u201cAs of today, I\u2019ve applied to over 90 jobs. I\u2019ve been ghosted by nearly 25 percent of them and rejected automatically from around 55 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The effort has secured her 10 interviews, but \u201cmany of them don\u2019t even bother to tell you you\u2019re not a good,\u201d Frost explained. \u201cI feel helpless\u2026 how do you prepare for a tight labor market coinciding with the emergence of AI and direct US involvement in war? Most generations have dealt with maybe one of these but our generation is the first to deal with all three.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether AI is taking jobs from new graduates, it\u2019s certainly become inseparable<\/a> from the job search. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor every job, especially ones for larger entities who are likelier to use AI in the hiring process, it\u2019s essential to tailor my resume explicitly for that position and include as many keywords as possible,\u201d an anonymous 25-year-old communications major from New York University told the Guardian<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s aggravating and exhausting, but sadly a necessity in this f***ed-up market and point in technological development.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate that I have to worry about passing a machine\u2019s arbitrary and unknowable tests before anyone considers my human capability and what I could bring to a given position as an individual,\u201d the NYU grad added.<\/p>\n

Whatever\u2019s causing the bone-dry job market, it\u2019s clear these grads have plenty of hustle. Their failure more or less comes down to bad luck, having been born into an economic system with little to offer<\/a> \u2014 and nothing to break their fall.<\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their R\u00e9sum\u00e9s Using AI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Recent Grads Say AI Is Making It Impossible to Find a Job<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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